Art: Little Magic

For U.S. Indians, the art world centers far from Manhattan's 57th
Street, in the luxurious Tulsa palace of Oil Millionaire Waite
Phillips. There the works of more than 100 Indian artists went on
display last week. Some 3,000 Tulsans, some of them art lovers, the
rest just curious, jammed into the former Phillips palace on opening
night.

What they saw, at the second annual exhibit of American Indian painting,
were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the
prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez
Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration...